A Life In Film

Our lives are directed from somewhere by someone!

A Life In Film

 

In staggering, patchwork movie reels

my life plays out.

Not the main feature but some

art house creation

screened in a dingy cold, bare basement.

 

At least I had the lead role,

the romantic hero who gets, but loses

the girl,

time and bloody time again,

as scriptwriters chopped and changed.

 

But the director was no Nolan, Bergman or Lumet

as he misinterpreted the script

and led his actors

to the infamy

of cinematic collapse.

 

And the producers, The Studio, the editor,

they all had their say,

leaving me a jobbing actor,

forgotten and unemployed

on the cutting room floor

 

16/07/15

Author's Note

Reviews

[1VJ]

Very unique subject matter, brilliantly portrayed.

[SleeplessVolcano]

Life is a play. Do we have a say? The someone shouts "Cut" and fall into our grave.

beautiful poetry!

[fattycbreezy52]

The tragedy in profession is well illustrated here.There is more to it.A perfect illustration by comparing life to a film and all its aspects....Well-written:)

[andrew mitchell]

Clever you are John, a unique poem and my fav band is Yes!

[Beccy]

A grand poem and wonderfully creative. Life does seem to be directed by higher hand, pre-ordained is the word that springs to mind and regretfully not always to our suiting.

'All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,'... The Bard.

Beccy.

[GreenShoes]

Very creative and clever. Always a pleasure reading your work.

[....................]

those scriptwriters can have the most damaging impact on life's stage and directors really only worry about the bottom line... this is great writing, John... very creative and full of emotion... one can't help but feel the heaviness in the chest when the final scene is done...

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you so very much FT

[mattavelli]

Sorry your scenes were cut. You could write your own script.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Matt; the Studios are a closed shop I am afraid and the film would never see the light of day lol!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

on the floor with his heart cut out, edited like a bad script.

nice metaphor here....in that one line did you mean "script"?

love the phrase "jobbing actor"---

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Many thanks Jacob and for spotting I had spilled my 'tea lol!